I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.
I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.
In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner.
I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.
I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.
I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.
